Change Partition0

here is the situation..
I had a clean install from the win200SP2 cdrom on a laptop.
It got stuck on the 70% formating NTFS drive (6Gb).
I reformated the first 3GB and installed on that.
then after install i went back to format the last 3Gb
I did something stupid trying to format this(not sure what) the computer crashed during format and now i have this situation.

using MAP on the recovery console i now have
? 0 \device\harddrive0\partition0
C: 3GB \device\harddrive0\partition1
? 3GB \device\harddrive0\partition0
then CDROMS FDD etc..

I am pretty sure i need to set c: (and partition1) to be partition0 so my computer can boot from the Harddisk, but i dont know how.

Are you saying that you got the operating system installed but it won't boot up? Don't change the disk paramaters manually, run fixboot from the recovery console and see if it can fix the problem for you.

the problem as i see it is:
it finds partition0, but since it contains nothing(and is not formatted), it does not look in partition1 where Winnt is installed. but moves onto FDD and CDROM

i think i need to rearrange/edit the partition table so (C: or partition1) is partition0, then all will be fine (i hope), I dont know how to go about this (what programs etc) and would like a guide before trying it on the wing.

I have no data on C other than all the installations of windows2000 and updated drivers, but reformating it may not solve the problem if partition0 stays 0MB.

go to www.bootdisk.com and get delpart (it's on the utilities page)
delete all partitions
then boot to a w98 bootdisk, run fdisk, create the partition(s) format fat32
install w2k
then after it is setup, convert the drives to NTFS

>check out partition magic, it should be able to do what you need
thanks, it does seem to be what I was after(i cant seem to download it on trial), is there any downloadable share or free ware software that does the same?

In the meantime i solved the problem..
by measuring the %formatted before it locked up i found the approx zone of bad sectors, using disk manager I created a 8mb partition around the bad zone then formatted new NTFS partitions on both sides.
Then for kicks I tried formatting the bad 8mb blocks, and for some strange reason DM could format them.
Once the whole second section of the disk was formated, i deleted the new partitions and did a quick format on the lot, check disk then happy days.

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